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Cu Zn Au Ag
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Super Porphyry Cu and Au
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The Yaman-Kasy volcanic hosted massive sulphide copper - zinc - gold - silver deposit is situated in the western part of the Urals Mountains in the Mednogorsk region of the Russian Federation.
For details of the regional setting, see the Regional Setting section of the 50 Let Oktyabrya record.
It is in a region considered to be a part of the Sakmara zone, a fragment of the Ordovician-Silurian marginal sea developed at the periphery of the Urals palaeo-ocean. The Yaman-Kasy deposit, as are the majority of the Ural VHMS deposits, is located in a narrow pull-apart extensional zone which was filled with rhyolite-dacite lavas of the Blyava
rhyolite-basalt complex, overlying a serpentinite-basalt basement. It is an example of one of the least metamorphosed VHMS deposits known.
The orebody occurs as a lens about 100 m long, forming a 37 m thick sulphide mound. It is hosted by a ~200 m thick sequence of rhyolitic to dacitic lavas and hyaloclastites, underlain by basalts and overlain by basaltic andesites.
The footwall to the massive sulphide is an altered rhyolite composed of quartz, chlorite, and sericite. The sulphide lens is zoned upward from a pyrite-rich basal zone, to sphalerite-chalcopyrite, to chalcopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite. The uppermost parts of the lens are dominantly sulphide-cemented breccias that contain sulphide chimney fragments and sulphidised vent fossils. Well-bedded clastic sulphide turbidites which are intercalated with bedded quartz-hematite jasper form the lateral equivalents of the massive sulphide lens and contain small fragments of sulphide chimney material and sulphidised vent fossils.
The deposit is small, with a resource (Maslennikov et al., 2009) of:
2.5 Mt @ 2.5% Cu, 5.5% Zn, 3 g/t Au, 33 g/t Ag.
The most recent source geological information used to prepare this decription was dated: 2009.
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Maslennikov V V, Maslennikova S P, Large R R and Danyushevsky L V, 2009 - Study of Trace Element Zonation in Vent Chimneys from the Silurian Yaman-Kasy Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit (Southern Urals, Russia) Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICPMS): in Econ. Geol. v104 pp 1111-1141
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Maslennikov, V.V., Ayupova, N.R., Safina, N.P., Tseluyko, A.S., Melekestseva, I.Yu., Large, R.R., Herrington, R.J., Kotlyarov, V.A., Blinov, I.A., Maslennikova, S.P. and Tessalina, S.G., 2019 - Mineralogical Features of Ore Diagenites in the Urals Massive Sulfide Deposits, Russia: in Minerals (MDPI) v.9, 38p. doi:10.3390/min9030150.
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Vikentyev, I.V., Belogub, E.V., Novoselov, K.A. and Moloshag, V.P., 2017 - Metamorphism of volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in the Urals. Ore geology: in Ore Geology Reviews v.85, pp. 30-63.
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